Romney distancing himself from Kris Kobach, the history of Mormon Polygamy and immigration

In 1891, Congress identified polygamists as “persons suffering from a loathsome or a dangerous contagious disease,” and those convicted of “a misdemeanor involving moral turpitude: ineligible for immigration.

Congress makes polygamists, “persons suffering from a loathsome or a dangerous contagious disease,” and those convicted of “a misdemeanor involving moral turpitude” ineligible for immigration. The act establishes the Bureau of Immigration within the Treasury Department.

1892

Ellis Island opens; serves as processing center for 12 million immigrants over the next 30 years.

Early on during the Republican primary elections, Mitt Romney decided to make a deal with the Latino devil via Kris Kobach — who is the legal architect of most anti-immigrant legislation via FAIR. Romney committed political Latino suicide when he decided to demonize Latin immigrants for his own political expediency. Romney has a history of moving politicians to the right regarding immigration when he ran against Sen. John McCain and we witnessed Romney attack Rick Perry when Rick stated his compassionate reasons for supporting the DREAM Act. Furthermore, Latino activists will never let Romney live his “veto the DREAM Act” statement when Newt Gingrich was giving him a run for his money during the South Carolina primary elections.

Now we see “multiple choice” Mitt Romney trying to distance himself from Kris Kobach. As a result of Romney’s “new” move … will FAIR continue to give Romney the best anti-immigrant score?

How will FAIR, Kris Kobach, John Tanton, Steve King, Lamar Smith, Marco Rubio and etc. feel about the policies made with regard to Romney’s polygamy and changing immigration views?

How will independent feminists feel about Romney’s polygamist background?

Would FAIR support ideas that will reverse the decision of Congress from 1891?

Jeff Flake flaked out against the DREAM Act vote during December 2010 when he voted against a compassionate view toward our youth, however, Flake supported the extension of Cuban vacations on the tax payer’s dime when he introduced and voted for an amendment to deny the Bush administration funds to enforce the travel ban. Furthermore, why is Jeff Flake encouraging this when Cuban immigrants receive government benefits and privileged amnesty only to go back on extended vacation?

Indeed it will be an interesting election year if Romney becomes the official GOP nominee. We get to see the hypocrisy the Obama machine will lay out as he politically annihilates Romney.

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Armed with data from the recent Reason-Rupe poll on the same subject, Reason TV explored these questions on the campus of University of California, Irvine by asking students in the 18-29 age group to talk about their political philosophies, their attitudes towards Democrats and Republicans, their reactions to the word “socialism,” and their perspectives on entrepreneurship.

“Right now, I think of [socialism] as more of a postive, because I think our country could use it a little bit more,” said one student who typifies attitude represented in the Reason-Rupe poll, which found that 42 percent of millennials favor socialism over capitalism.

However, as Reason polling director Emily Ekins explains, this may be because millennials simply have a different understanding of socialism than prior generations who came of age during the Cold War.

“If they were to understand that ‘socialism’ meant government running Facebook, Amazon, Uber… they would not like that,” says Ekins, who found that only 32 percent of millennials favor a “government-managed economy” over a “free market economy.”

Millennials also have a distrust of the two-party system and increasingly identify as independents, with 34 percent declining to indentify with a political party even when asked if they lean one way or another, a rate three times higher than that of Americans over 30 years old.

Ekins says that Millennials speak a different political language than older generations, a language shaped in no small part by major world events like 9/11, the financial crisis, and two wars in the Middle East, all of which occured as this generation came of an age where politics began to matter to them.

“We need to be more concrete and specific with the words we use when we talk to young people,” says Ekins. “Words like capitalism and socialism, language from the Cold War, post-World War II era is just not going to work, because those words have lost meaning.”

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